Jimmy Hoover

August 28, 2024 | National Law Journal

The nine justices are set to consider the legality of a Tennessee law preventing doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to treat gender dysphoria in trans youth.

By Jimmy Hoover

5 minute read

August 27, 2024 | National Law Journal

They won't get paid. It's going to be extremely time-consuming. There is no prior counsel to review their work. And they'll spend months drafting briefs and preparing for an argument where the best case scenario is achieving a victory on behalf of a client that does not exist.

By Jimmy Hoover

9 minute read

August 22, 2024 | National Law Journal

A lower court upheld the law, saying the "weapons at issue fall outside the ambit of protection offered by the Second Amendment because, in essence, they are military-style weapons designed for sustained combat operations that are ill-suited and disproportionate to the need for self-defense."

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read

August 21, 2024 | National Law Journal

The tech giants have filed briefs urging the justices to close the "floodgates" of securities lawsuits the companies claim have been opened by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

By Jimmy Hoover

6 minute read

August 19, 2024 | National Law Journal

The EPA seized on an exception to the 'no-deference' rule in Loper Bright Enterprises Inc. v. Raimondo that applies when Congress has explicitly delegated a policy choice to an agency.

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read

August 16, 2024 | National Law Journal

Only the U.S. Supreme Court can resolve the sharp division among federal circuit courts regarding standards of online liability, Cox Communications says.

By Jimmy Hoover

5 minute read

August 15, 2024 | National Law Journal

"They [the justices] overturned me a couple times and I thought they were wrong," said retired Judge Thomas Griffith, who served 15 years on a federal appellate court. "But that doesn't mean that my reaction to that ought to be to change the composition of the court."

By Jimmy Hoover

11 minute read

August 14, 2024 | National Law Journal

One way to do that is by what scholars call "narrowing" precedents, such as by limiting them almost exclusively to the factual circumstances in which they arose. Critics have disparaged this practice as a form of "stealth overruling."

By Jimmy Hoover

7 minute read

August 12, 2024 | National Law Journal

After the court's June ruling overturning 40 years of deference to regulatory agencies, the "Humphrey's Executor" precedent has emerged as public enemy No. 1 of the anti-administrativist legal movement.

By Jimmy Hoover

5 minute read

August 06, 2024 | National Law Journal

Former President Donald Trump's White House chief of staff and longtime personal attorney bring appeals to the justices.

By Jimmy Hoover

12 minute read